[Fwd: --add-missing]

[Derek R. Price]

Yep.  Looks like that could be used by configure to set, say,
TEX_TEXINPUTS & PDFTEX_TEXINPUTS and prepend include dirs differently
for different targets, but I suspect that if your TeX distribution
includes kpsewhich then your TeX applications can already find the
appropriate texinfo.tex.

Of course, I suppose this could still be used to find a more recent
texinfo.tex than was included with your automake distribution, which
would work slightly better than including an out-of-date texinfo.tex,
but the included texinfo.tex will still render PDF targets unbuildable
since texi2dvi will, by default, prefer a texinfo.tex in '.' over one
elsewhere.

In other words, a complete solution is probably some combination of
these two, so that TEX_TEXINPUTS or PDFTEX_TEXINPUTS is used when
available and the included texinfo.tex is used when the appropriate
texinfo.tex can't be found.

This is a little more work, but it seems much less baroque than mv'ing
texinfo.tex out of the way when a better one is found.  Then again,
maybe you can find a way to make that work.

Derek

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> Hi,
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> "Derek R. Price" <address@hidden> writes:
> > Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > > On Nov 13, 2000, "Derek R. Price" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > Okay, is there some way short of symlinking the
> > > > /usr/share/automake/texinfo.tex file by hand to make sure that automake
> > > > --add-missing uses the "proper" texinfo.tex file (i.e. the one installed
> > > > with the texinfo package and assumedly the most recent one)?
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> > > I'm afraid not.  Any suggestions about how automake could find out
> > > where texinfo.tex from the texinfo package is installed, assuming it
> > > is?
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> > Well, after sifting the documentation for my distribution for several hours,
> > I have discovered the "texmf.cnf" file.  It appears to define all sorts of
> > possible search paths dependant on the format of your input and output files.
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> Assuming you're using teTeX (likely for most recent UNIX TeX
> installations), you look for things using the 'kpsewhich' program,
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>   kpsewhich texinfo.tex
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> The texmf.cnf file should be treated as an internal detail.
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> - Hari
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> Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ address@hidden
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